After the hardest-hit batted ball of his short career — a 102.1-mph triple, also his first extra-base hit — Anthony Volpe seemed more pleased with a swing he did not take.

Down 0-2 to Cole Irvin in Baltimore on Saturday, the Yankees shortstop laid off a 90-mph, spinny four-seam fastball just above the strike zone for ball one.

Irvin then missed with a four-seamer that was low in the zone and in the middle of the plate, which Volpe crushed off the right-field wall.

“I tried to make an adjustment on how to approach him with two strikes,” a smiling Volpe said after the game. “I laid off a pretty good, competitive pitch and just got the barrel to the ball.”